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Organizational Goals As stated FRANK is a contemporary fine arts gallery featuring work <br />by local artists enriching the community through exhibitions, ev ents <br />and arts education. W e are the only nonprofit, fine arts gallery in <br />Chapel Hill and our community outreach mission has led us to <br />collaborate, ov er the years, with a broad spectrum of arts and <br />community minded organizations. Until March 2020 in addition to our <br />main Univ ersity Place gallery, we also ran the annex Michael and <br />Laura Brader-Araje Community Gallery, also in Univ ersity Place, <br />which gav e us an ideal space for teaching and partnering with many <br />non-profit collaborators in an attempt to fulfill part of our mission. In <br />the Community Gallery we showed work by a broad spectrum of local <br />non-profit organizations including; the Chapel Hill- Carrboro PTA <br />“Reflections” exhibition, Arts for Life, a program for pediatric patients <br />and their families, "W omen Speak" a W omen’s International Day <br />exhibit, an exhibit of work from the Karen Youth Art Group along with <br />that of culturally div erse students from UNC Chapel Hill’s Art <br />Department, many exhibitions of the Orange County Artists Guild- <br />and sev eral more. Though we no longer hav e the Community Gallery <br />which closed in April 2020 because of mall redev elopment, our main <br />commitment is keeping FRANK a high quality arts gallery supporting <br />more than 100 local artists, partnering with and supporting local <br />community initiativ es such as Boomerang, maintaining our Karen <br />Youth Art Group and reaching out to our local community through <br />gallery based ev ents and exhibitions. Our goals for our youth <br />initiativ es such as the Karen and Boomerang groups is to expose <br />them to the wonders of the v isual arts and to equip them with real <br />skills and v isions that schools and home cannot equate. This is in <br />line with the NC Arts Council’s Comprehensiv e Arts Education model. <br />Though the pandemic shut us down from March-June 2020 we <br />quickly got back into the gallery maintaining our exhibit schedule, <br />online programming, promotions, and outreach programming in <br />order to fulfill our important mission to our community. W e are <br />applying for operational support to help us meet our current <br />ov erhead expenses which will enable us to fulfill our organizational <br />goals and ensure that FRANK continues to stage high quality <br />contemporary art exhibitions and community relev ant programming <br />at its current purpose built v enue. Furthermore, FRANK’s ability to <br />surv iv e the height of the COVID pandemic bodes well for its resolv e <br />to weather the nation’s current economic v olatility. The continued <br />support of our membership and the public all indicate that FRANK is <br />an artistic force which the Chapel Hill/ Carrboro, Orange County and <br />greater Triangle need. W e are grateful to the Orange County Arts <br />Commission for all its past support through stimulus and COVID <br />grants and we are hopeful that if our application for a Grassroots <br />Grant is successful that it will allow us to continue growing and fulfill <br />our mission without depleting our financial reserv es since we are <br />currently facing many unknowns with the redev elopment of <br />Univ ersity Place. <br />DocuSign Envelope ID: C323C9C3-F573-4399-A120-2A0A7E277E09